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Privies.
8. Every person who shall construct a privy
in connection with a building shall construct such privy at
a distance of twenty feet at the least from a dwelling-house,
or public building, or any building in which any person
may be or may be intended to be employed in any manufacture,
trade, or business.
9. A. person who shall construct a privy in connection
with a building shall not construct such privy within
the distance of one hundred feet from any well, spring, or
stream of water used, or likely to be used, by man for
drinking or domestic purposes, or for manufacturing drinks
for the use of man, or otherwise in such a position as to
render any such water liable to pollution.
10. Every person who shall construct a privy in connection
with a building shall construct such privy in such
a manner and in such a position as to afford ready means
of access to such privy, for the purpose of cleansing such
privy and of removing filth therefrom, and in such a manner
and in such a position as to admit of all filth being removed
from such privy, and from the premises to which such privy
may belong, Avithout being carried through any dwellinghouse,
or public building, or any building in which any
person may be or may be intended to be employed in any
manufacture, trade or business.
11. E very person who shall construct a privy in
connection with a building, shall provide such privy with a
sufficient opening for ventilation as near to the top as
practicable and communicating directly with the external air.
He shall cause the floor of such privy to be flagged or
paved Avith hard tiles or other non-absorbent material, and